On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 11:15 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Thursday 17 December 2009 05:27:32 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 December 2009, david walcroft wrote: > > >I tried to edit grubconf. with vim but when I tried to change 'rhgb' and > > >'quiet' the cursor would not edit the line as the cursor would not stop > > >at the line,it went either above or below the line. > > >Is this new behavior in fc12 > > > > > >david > > > > No David. That is a long line and you need to start on what you call the > > line about it, and then right arrow till you get there. > > So vim does this as well? Such behavior is the only thing I absolutely *hate* > in emacs. It is completely nonintuitive to word-wrap the text but not cursor > movement. When one presses the down arrow, one naturally expects the cursor to > go down to the next line of what is visibly presented on the screen (be it the > same actual line or the next one), not down to the next line of a file whose > structure which is not directly visible. ---- such is the behavior of 'line editors' - always been that way. people who write code sort of appreciate the line editor logic and people who are primarily used to word processing in a GUI environment often don't get it. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
